Indicator for post-offices



(No Model.)

H. B., WINTER.

INDICATOR FOR POST OFFICES. No. 447,803. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

, I fltforney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IIIRAM I3. VINTER, OF TYRCONNELL MINES, IVEST VIRGINIA.

INDICATOR FOR POST-OFFICES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 447,803, dated March 10, 1891. Application filcdApril 12, 1890. Serial No. 847,588. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, I'IIRAM B. IVINTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tyrconnell Mines, in the county of Taylor and State of Vest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Indi cators for Post-Offices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to indicators; and it consists in the improved construction and arrangement or combination of parts of an indicator for indicating the amount of stamps canceled and sold each day in a post-oitice, as hereinafter fully disclosed in the description, drawings, and claim.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide an improved indicator for indicating the amounts of stamps canceled and sold each day in a post-oiiice, and, second, to provide improved means for guiding the hands or pointers which indicate the amounts and dates. These objects are attained in the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which the same reference-letters indicate the same parts, and in which- Figure 1 represents a face view of my improved register and indicator, and Fig. 2 a diametrical section of the same.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates a dial, which is preferably made of sheet metal mounted upon a suitable backing B of wood or other material, The dial has marked upon it a number of concentric annular spaces 0, separated from each other by circular grooves D. The central circular space E of the dial has a slot F, behind which a card or slide G, having the number of the year, may be secured to show said number through the slot. The innermost annular space is subdivided into thirteen subdivisions H, in twelve of which the names of the month are marked, leaving one blank space. Outside of said inner space is the circular groove D and another space, which is subdivided into thirty-two subdivisions I, each subdivision having the date of one day of the month inscribed in it and one subdivision having a blank. The four annular spaces 0 outside of said space are each divided into one hundred and one subdivisions J, K, L, and M by means of radiating lines N, and said subdivisions are inscribed in regular progression with numbers from 0 to 100. The numbers of the inner space indicate the value in cents of the amounts of stamps cancelled. The next space has the numbers indicating the value in dollars of the amounts of stamps canceled. The next space has the nu mbers indicating the value in cents of the amounts of stamps sold, and the subdi visions of the outermost space have the num* bers indicating the value in dollars of the amounts of stamps sold.

A post or arbor O is secured at the center of the dial, and a number of indices,pointers, or hands P are pivoted at their inner ends, one above the other, upon said post or arbor. The shortest of said pointers or hands is pivoted near the lowermost end of the post, and so forth, the longest pointer or hand being pivoted at the uppermost end of the post, so that each pointer or hand maybe revolved entirely around the dial without interfering with the others. The pointers or hands'are made of spring metal, and have their outer portions bent downward and outward to form sliding ends Q, which are formed with knobs or projections R, which slide in the circular grooves D.

The blank or zero subdivisions of the a11- nular spaces register and have preferably inscribed in them the denominations of coin indicated in the corresponding spaces, and the classes of stamps registered as stamps sold, and it or stamps canceled, and (t From the foregoing it is obvious that the value of the amounts of stamps sold or can celed in a post-office may be easilyindicated by moving the corresponding hands to the numbers indicating the values of stamps sold or canceled. The date and month are indicated by their respective hands, and thus the amounts of a days sales and cancellations may be easily determined. When no sales or cancellations are registered at the beginning of the day, the hands are placed upon the blank or zero spaces. The shape of the hands will keep them firmly at their places when adjusted, and the grooves in the dials and the knobs upon the hands will guide the latter and keep them in their adjusted posipivoted uponsaid post, having their outer tions by said knobs bearing againstlthe sides portions bent downward and outward and of the grooves. provided with knobs which slide in said 15 Having thus fully described the construcgrooves upon the under sides of said out- 5 tion and arrangement or combination of the wardly-bent ends, substantiallyas described.

several parts of my improved register and in- In testimony whereofil affix my signature in dicator, its operation, and advantages, what presence of two witnesses. I 01mm as new 1s HIRAM B. WINTER.

In an indicator, the combination of adial v 10 having annular concentric indicating-spaces Witnesses:

and circular grooves between said spaces, a' B. F. BAILEY, central post, and hands of unequal lengths C. C. FRUM. 1 

